Film blackness : American cinema and the idea of black film / Michael Boyce Gillespie.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gillespie, Michael Boyce, 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
African Americans in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Motion picture industry > United States.
Motion picture industry.
United States.
Physical Description:xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. We insist: the idea of black film
  • Reckless eyeballing : coonskin and the racial grotesque
  • Smiling faces : Chameleon street and Black performativity
  • Voices inside (everything is everything) : deep cover and modalities of noir blackness
  • Black maybe : medicine for melancholy, place, and quiet becoming
  • Coda. Destination out.